Jump to content

User talk:Pigsonthewing/Archive 145

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archive 140←Archive 143Archive 144Archive 145Archive 146Archive 147→Archive 150

Wikidata weekly summary #440

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)
  • Events
    • Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET
This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.
1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.
  • Tool of the week
    • reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.
  • Development
    • Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
    • Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
    • Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266673)
    • The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Request for Article Review

Hello, there is a conversation going on over at Talk:Instacart about a recent Undisclosed paid tag. The article is in need of review by an uninvolved editor to decide if the article has been sufficiently "cleaned up" for the template to be removed. I’m reaching out to you based on your recent involvement in the discussion at Template Talk:Undisclosed paid. Thank you! 76.90.102.132 (talk) 23:59, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #441

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
  • Development
    • Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
    • Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
    • Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
    • Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
    • Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
    • Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2020-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [1]
  • From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [2][3]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXV, November 2020

Full front page of The Bugle
Your Military History Newsletter

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 15:51, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2020



Headlines
  • AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wikipedia in African Libraries Project
  • Brazil report: Abre-te Código hackathon, Wikidata related events and news from our partners
  • Finland report: Postponed Hack4FI GLAM hackathon turned into an online global Hack4OpenGLAM
  • France report: Partnership with BNU Strasbourg
  • Germany report: Coding da Vinci cultural data hackathon heads to Lower Saxony
  • India report: Mapping GLAM in Maharashtra, India
  • Indonesia report: Bulan Sejarah Indonesia 2.0; Structured data edit-a-thon; Proofreading mini contest
  • Netherlands report: National History Month: East to West, Dutch libraries and Wikipedia
  • New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large
  • Norway report: The Sámi Languages on wiki
  • Serbia report: Many activities are in our way
  • Sweden report: Librarians learn about Wikidata; More Swedish literature on Wikidata; Online Edit-a-thon Dalarna; Applications to the Swedish Innovation Agency; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Librarians and Projekt HBTQI; GLAM Statistical Tool
  • UK report: Enamels of the World
  • USA report: American Archive of Public Broadcasting; Smithsonian Women in Finance Edit-a-thon; Black Lunch Table; San Diego/October 2020; WikiWednesday Salon
  • Calendar: November's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Nomination of Gannow Green for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gannow Green is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gannow Green until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Majash2020 (talk) 05:46, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Reinhold Aman

Hello, Pigsonthewing. I'm a bit confused about this edit of yours. There seems to be longstanding precedent to list editors who were not particularly prolific on Wikipedia but famous in real life—namely, Roger Ebert (Rebert). I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:12, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

No such precedent exists. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:13, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
In that case, what do you see as the substantive difference between the two cases? —Psychonaut (talk) 12:16, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Well for a start, Ebert's edits weren't wholly autobiographical; they constituted more than 139 characters in article space, and they did not introduce citations like <ref>Information supplied by Reinhold Aman</ref>. But if you wish to purse this further, start a talk page discussion and see if there is consensus for your addition. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:25, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

2020-11-13 Coventry University

Hello

--Declancunni09 (talk) 12:22, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy --OrmsDan (talk) 12:22, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy. --Fiscarineardiah (talk) 12:22, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy MikeRockets (talk) 12:23, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy.--Melissa-xoi (talk) 12:24, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy--JAH473 (talk) 12:24, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy.--Melissa-xoi (talk) 12:25, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

hello

Hi Andy.--Semair912 (talk) 12:26, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy Yvette0103 (talk) 12:26, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello Andy

--Lubegar (talk) 12:27, 13 November 2020 (UTC)


Hello

Hey, Andy The "Bottom of Page" link at the top of this page doesn't work. -Roxy the inedible dog . wooF 12:25, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

I fixed it; thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:34, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Klaas' cuckoo song

Hi Andy, I've been looking around on xeno-canto for a nice recording of the characteristic "maiki-maiki" call. There's a fine collection [4], but as far as I can see all but two of these are licensed as BY-NC-SA (the two BY-SA ones are pretty bad). I don't have much experience uploading sound recordings to Commons, but if I understand correctly that's not a usable license for our purposes? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:08, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Elmidae You're correct; the "NC" clause precludes their use. You can always contact the uploader and ask them to reconsider. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:11, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
Worth a try; some of the contributors specifically state that they are open to such requests. I'll put out some feelers. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:25, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [5][6]

Changes later this week

  • If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [7]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #442

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.
  • Development
    • Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
    • Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
    • Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
    • Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
    • Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
    • Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Kukur Tihar

Hello, I hope you don't mind me contacting you, but the user Elizium23 continues to disruptively edit the article Kukur Tihar, having just removed a large tract of cited material from the body of the text. I have reversed it, but I fully expect they will return and continue to edit war. You have also reversed some of their editing. Do you think they should be reported? I would have no idea how to do that.86.56.23.178 (talk) 08:05, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Follow the process at WP:DR. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:56, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 41

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

  • New partnership: Taxmann
  • WikiCite
  • 1Lib1Ref 2021

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:48, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Emma Turner

Many thanks for your recent edits. A relatively painless progression to FA this time, if only because the sources are limited Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:10, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

@Jimfbleak: And thank you for the great job you did on it. It would be good to get a high-res copy of the painting. We have several versions, BTW. See also edit summary here. Did you see [8]? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:40, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
That's brilliant, what timing! I'll add that Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:06, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
And that edit summary is interesting... Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:07, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [9]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • Advanced item The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [10]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

ikidata weekly summary #443

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.
  • Development
    • Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
    • Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275)
    • Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502)
    • Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023)
    • Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936)
    • Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (phab:T264538)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pigsonthewing/Archive_145&oldid=992994258"